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4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca discuss the best-selling books of 2019, Obama's 2019 reading recs, the RWA meltdown, and more. This episode is sponsored by: Libro.fm The Read Harder Challenge Book Riot Insiders Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict Links discussed in this episode: RIP Sonny Mehta Bestsellers of 2019 Obama’s favorite books of 2019...and they were finally not just on FB The RWA has a racism problem Romance Writers problem matters because people are watching The Implosion of the RWA Avon & Harlequin pull out of RWA in response: https://twitter.com/avonbooks/status/1214925842830299136?s=20 https://twitter.com/sparkjoyromance/status/1214931763409117185?s=20 Book Culture update See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is episode 346 recording on Thursday January 9th.
0:04.0	This is the Book Riot Podcast.
0:06.0	It is a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool, and worth talking about
0:09.0	in the world of books and reading.
0:11.0	This episode 346, recording on on Thursday January 9th
0:13.9	welcome to 2020 a new decade a new you same us I'm Jeff O'Neill
0:18.9	here with Rebecca Shinsky coming to you from a website called book Riot.com that is about books and
0:24.4	reading and cool things. Yeah and thank you for giving that qualifier that it's a
0:29.1	new them but a same us because I felt a lot of unexpected pressure there for like 10 seconds like wait am I supposed to be new?
0:35.7	Every day I wake up a new man, Rebecca. That's just how I live my life.
0:39.9	It's a little bit less than I was the day before, but I'm different.
0:45.0	Well, we're all just slowly dying, Jeff.
0:47.0	Happy New Year.
0:48.0	Get busy living or, well, you're dying anyway, so get busy leaving.
0:52.0	That's the the
0:53.4	shashank Redemption we talked about that mhm yeah that was the first draft
0:57.2	get busy living because you're dying wait a minute I can we talk, I have a note on that.
1:04.0	Can we talk about that one from?
1:05.0	No, no, I'm kidding.
1:07.0	It's been a while since we talked though, we had the books of the decade episode with
1:10.6	Amanda that released last week and then we took some time off and you know we're
1:14.4	getting back into it's our first regular show we've had in a while we're talking
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